Known as India’s IT hub, Bengaluru boasts of leading the country into an era of technological and digital revolution. However, today the city stands exposed for having fallen prey to uncontrolled urbanization, haphazard growth and above all lack of accountability among those governing this city. The BBMP demolitions of unauthorized…...
Namma Hakku – Citizens’ Rights Series
In the first of its kind initiative Namma Bengaluru Foundation in association with MP Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar on June 16, 2016 organized a unique interactive citizen’s workshop, with an objective to awaken, inform and educate the citizens of Bangalore on the recently passed Real Estate Regulation Act (RERA). The focus…...
The Drought Dilemma
When in ‘drought’ – save every drop, every day and every way The word ‘disaster’ invokes imagery of shattering earthquakes, heavy deluges, devastating cyclones etc. However, droughts that are deceptive by nature are equally disturbing calamities. Drought is both an environmental and developmental issue, and nowhere is this graver than…...
Illegal commercialisation case
Despite the prohibition of granting licenses to commercial establishments in residential areas under the RMP – 2015, the BBMP has continued to permit the establishment of commercial concerns in certain areas of Bengaluru. One such occasion of granting license is that to the ‘Breakfast Club’ situated in Koramangala. Namma Bengaluru…...
Agara-Bellandur case
For over a decade now, innumerable developers have encroached Bengaluru’s lake beds and other ecologically sensitive eco-systems resulting in increasing number of dying water bodies. The builders also blatantly flout all rules related to the real estate sector. To reclaim our city from the hands of such erring builders is…...
